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You knew it. I knew it. Anthony Fauci and company undoubtedly knew it too.

But the US public health establishment has been denying it for 3 years
because they were partially responsible.

The UK’s Sunday Times, basically a centrist equivalent of The New York Times for Great Britain (The New York Times was actually named after the Times),
has a bombshell report that COVID-19 was indeed engineered by the Chinese military using US funding. The US funding came through the EcoHealth
Alliance.

There is still much we don’t know about #COVID19 origins in China but
it’s already clear COVID-19 was the greatest crime of the 21st century
to date. Twenty million people are dead from a totally avoidable
pandemic. It’s time for an international tribunal.
https://t.co/lFFE5BROwd

— Jamie Metzl (@JamieMetzl) June 11, 2023

The trail of money went, as we already know, from the NIH through the
EcoHealth Alliance to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The Chinese Military became involved in the coronavirus research around 2017 when gain-of-function research started bearing fruit.

The Times’ report, which I strongly suspect is absolutely true although I
have to take the Times’ word on the provenance of the evidence, is based upon confidential documents leaked to them by investigators who were sent to Wuhan to study the outbreak. It also comes directly from the United States State Department’s investigators who were sent to China to investigate the origins
of the virus. There are extensive quotes from those State Department investigators.

Scientists in Wuhan working alongside the Chinese military were
combining the world’s most deadly coronaviruses to create a new
mutant virus just as the pandemic began.

Investigators who scrutinised top-secret intercepted communications
and scientific research believe Chinese scientists were running a
covert project of dangerous experiments, which caused a leak from the
Wuhan Institute of Virology and started the Covid-19 outbreak.

The US investigators say one of the reasons there is no published
information on the work is because it was done in collaboration with
researchers from the Chinese military, which was funding it and which,
they say, was pursuing bioweapons.

The US had banned funding for gain-of-function research until the decision
was reversed by Dr. Fauci, and the EcoHealth Alliance was enthusiastic about restarting their research into making viruses more lethal for research purposes. The whole point of gain-of-function research is to take benign viruses and make them dangerous and virulent, theoretically for research purposes.

Apparently, the Chinese military felt the same way about gain-of-function research as the EcoHealth Alliance. Very enthusiastic indeed.

The Sunday Times has reviewed hundreds of documents, including
previously confidential reports, internal memos, scientific papers and
email correspondence that has been obtained through sources or by
freedom of information campaigners in the three years since the pandemic
started. We also interviewed the US State Department investigators —
including experts on China, emerging pandemic threats, and biowarfare —
who conducted the first significant US inquiry into the origins of the
Covid-19 outbreak.

Note that last sentence: some of this information comes directly from US government sources. The rest were from documents that were obtained either overtly or covertly from correspondence or scientific papers. Essentially
they put together pieces of a puzzle that all fit together, and those pieces are confirmed by the State Department investigators.

As you probably know, the British press is loosely divided between the ‘respectable’ broadsheet newspapers and the more lively and partisan tabloid press. The Times is of the former class, is very establishment in outlook,
and was very on board with COVID lockdown policies. It has endorsed both
Labour and Conservatives over the years and actually endorsed Barack Obama
for president. It is more establishment than ideological.

In other words, the newspaper doesn’t have an axe to grind here and is not known for hyperbole to generate sales and clicks. This is the equivalent of
the New York Times reporting that they have reviewed secret documents proving Joe Biden engaged in a bribery scandal–it would be an admission against interest.

The facility, which had started hunting the origins of the Sars virus
in 2003, attracted US government funding through a New York-based
charity whose president was a British-born and educated zoologist.
America’s leading coronavirus scientist shared cutting-edge virus
manipulation techniques.

The institute was engaged in increasingly risky experiments on
coronaviruses it gathered from bat caves in southern China. Initially,
it made its findings public and argued the associated risks were
justified because the work might help science develop vaccines.

This changed in 2016 after researchers discovered a new type of
coronavirus in a mineshaft in Mojiang in Yunnan province where people
had died from symptoms similar to Sars.

Rather than warning the world, the Chinese authorities did not report
the fatalities. The viruses found there are now recognised as the only
members of Covid-19’s immediate family known to have been in existence
pre-pandemic.

They were transported to the Wuhan institute and the work of its
scientists became classified. “The trail of papers starts to go dark,”
a US investigator said. “That’s exactly when the classified programme
kicked off. My view is that the reason Mojiang was covered up was due
to military secrecy related to [the army’s] pursuit of dual use
capabilities in virological biological weapons and vaccines.”

According to the US investigators, the classified programme was to make
the mineshaft viruses more infectious to humans.

None of this should be shocking, given what we already know. In fact, most Americans already believe that the virus came from a lab leak, despite desperate efforts on Anthony Fauci’s part to deny this nearly certain fact.
As you may recall, when virus experts warned Dr. Fauci that the virus looked engineered, he hastily arranged a conference call that pressured them to
assert that the virus was natural.

They did and were rewarded with $9 million in research grants. Fauci and co. assert the two events were unrelated.

Yeah, right.

In any case, the State Department researchers found a lot of evidence that
the Wuhan lab was involved, despite Chinese interference in the
investigation.

They found evidence that researchers working on these experiments were
taken to hospital with Covid-like symptoms in November 2019 — a month
before the West became aware of the pandemic — and one of their
relatives died.

An investigator said: “We were rock-solid confident that this was
likely Covid-19 because they were working on advanced coronavirus
research in the laboratory. They’re trained biologists in their
thirties and forties. Thirty-five-year-old scientists don’t get very
sick with influenza.”

Separate analysis shows the centre of the initial outbreak of Covid-19,
which has killed more than seven million people, was close to the
institute’s laboratory, rather than at the city’s “wet” wildlife market
as had been thought.

Notice how many facts known to US investigators have been systematically
denied in public. It is almost as if this is a huge coverup from the top, although that would be unthinkable. Everybody involved has had good
intentions all along. Right?

Right?

The EcoHealth Alliance was known to skirt the US ban on gain-of-function research that was implemented by the Obama Administration. They worked diligently in Wuhan to engineer SARS-like viruses that did not infect humans into infectious variants, as well as manipulate a MERS virus found in camels into an infectious variant for humans.

All this work was done in Biosafety labs rated at level 2, or the level used
in a dentist’s office.

By 2017, according to a paper published by Shi, her scientists had
sought to create eight mutant viruses from the Sars-like coronaviruses
found in the Shitou cave. Two of the mutant viruses were found to
infect human cells. Most of this work was carried out in the institute’s
biosafety level 2 (BSL-2) laboratories, which took only light
precautions that have been compared to those used in a dental surgery.

By contrast, the US guidelines require level 3 (BSL-3) precautions for
similar work, including self-closing doors, filtered air and scientists
equipped with full PPE while under medical supervision.

The US embassy found out about the experiments in Wuhan and sent
diplomats with scientific expertise to inspect the institute in January
2018, according to diplomatic cables leaked to The Washington Post.
They observed “a serious shortage of appropriately trained technicians
and investigators needed to safely operate this high-containment
laboratory”.

Again, this has already been public knowledge, although the US government and biomedical researchers have done a lot of work to downplay the deficiencies
of the Wuhan lab, and the MSM has acted like Pravda in spreading doubt about the WIV’s poor safety practices and experiments with coronaviruses. One of
the reasons why doubt about the official story has grown is the steady drip drip drip of damning evidence. Why has no US paper put all the data together into a comprehensive story?

Around the same time, the Wuhan institute took another perilous leap
forward with its work on the Shitou viruses. It began what Professor
Richard Ebright describes as the most dangerous coronavirus experiment
ever undertaken. The scientists selected three lab-grown mutant viruses,
created by mixing Sars-like viruses with WIV1, which had all been shown
to infect human cells. These mutants were then injected into the noses
of albino mice with human lungs.

The aim was to see whether the viruses had the potential to spark a
pandemic if they were fused together, as they might do naturally in a
bat colony. The original WIV1 virus was injected into another group of
mice as a comparison.

The mice were monitored in their cages over two weeks. The results were
shocking. The mutant virus that fused WIV1 with SHC014 killed 75 per
cent of the rodents and was three times as lethal as the original WIV1.
In the early days of the infection, the mice’s human-like lungs were
found to contain a viral load up to 10,000 times greater than the
original WIV1 virus.

You might think that this data–known to the US for quite some time, might
have figured into assessments made by our intelligence community and
especially the CDC and NIAID regarding the origin of the virus. And, indeed,
it almost certainly did factor into the analysis.

Unfortunately, their response seems to have been to panic and cover it up. Revealing that the US helped fund research that created a super-coronavirus might not sit well with the American public and our allies during a pandemic that eventually killed millions of people.

Not to mention the impact on the reputations and careers of the people involved, particularly one Anthony Fauci, who was perfectly placed to both
hide the facts and steer government policies and recommendations.

The experiment’s results suggested the new lab-made virus would be
more difficult to stop if it leaked into the population, according to
Ebright. It appeared to be highly infectious early in the illness.

The researchers’ tests also showed vaccines and other treatments
developed to combat Sars were not effective against the new virus.
The results of the experiment were not shared with other scientists
in any scientific journal or paper.

The experiment was part-funded by EcoHealth’s grant money, but the FOI
documents show that, while the Wuhan institute’s experiments were
described in Daszak’s April 2018 annual progress report to the NIH, he
did not refer to the deaths of the humanised mice.

There was also no mention of the mouse deaths in the grant renewal
application Daszak filed to the NIH later that year. In this account,
he said the mice had experienced “mild Sars-like clinical signs” when
they were infected with the mutant virus. It had actually killed six
of the eight infected humanised mice.

I think we can all rest assured that a 75% death rate in humanized mice was such a minor finding that Daszak and the EcoHealth Alliance just forgot to mention it when they requested more funding from the United States
government. I mean, really, what’s the big deal?

Daszak eventually provided details of the experiment’s deadly results
to the US authorities in a report after the Covid-19 pandemic. He now
says his 2018 statement about the “mild” illness was based on
preliminary results — even though the experiment in which the mice died
had taken place several months before he issued the statement.

This guy is a total sweetheart. A genuine humanitarian. And one of Anthony Fauci’s pet projects. Fauci was deeply connected to the EcoHealth Alliance
and was one of its great fans.

In fact, when the Alliance looked for funding from the US government that didn’t come from NIAID, they weren’t so lucky. DARPA turned them down when
they requested a bigger chunk of change than the NIH could easily provide.
Not everybody shared Fauci’s good opinion of the organization.

By March 2018, the Wuhan institute was keen to press ahead with more
experiments. Daszak applied for more funding from the US. He made a
pitch for $14 million over three years from the Defence Advanced
Research Projects Agency (Darpa), which is responsible for emerging
technology for use by the military.

The application, entitled Defuse — which names Daszak, Shi and Baric —
proposed the Wuhan laboratory find large numbers of new Sars viruses
and mix some of them with their two deadly strains from the Shitou cave
— WIV1 and SHC014 — to see what would happen. Darpa declined to fund
the research.

One specific experiment involved inserting a furin cleavage site, a
tiny section of a virus’s genetic order that makes them more infectious,
into the pathogens. Daszak and the Wuhan laboratory say they did not
go ahead with the work. But when Covid-19 emerged the following year,
it was notable for being the first Sars-like coronavirus with a furin
cleavage site.

Remember the furin cleavage site? It was the main reason why the original virologists who argued that the virus looked engineered made that assessment. Their observation is what led to that original panicked conference call and
the apparent bribes to change their stories. It seems quite the coincidence that COVID-19 is the only coronavirus with such a site and that the EcoHealth Alliance’s goal was to create a coronavirus with a furin cleavage site.

This next part comes directly from the US State Department investigators who were sent to Wuhan to investigate the origins of COVID. Their research
revealed how the virus was created:

The investigators spoke to two researchers working at a US laboratory
who were collaborating with the Wuhan institute at the time of the
outbreak. They said the Wuhan scientists had inserted furin cleavage
sites into viruses in 2019 in exactly the way proposed in Daszak’s
failed funding application to Darpa.

The investigators also saw evidence that the institute was conducting
“serial passaging” experiments on at least one of the mine viruses.
This is a process in which lab animals are infected with viruses and
monitored to see which strain is harmful to their health. The most
damaging strain is selected for repeat experiments to encourage the
pathogens to mutate into something more deadly.

The investigators spoke to a Wuhan institute insider who alleged serial
passaging experiments were being carried out on RaTG13. “Humanised mice
with the serial passaging is a toxic combination,” said a source. “It
speeds up the natural mutation process. So instead of taking years to
mutate, it can take weeks or months. It guarantees that you accelerate
the natural process.”

This, by the way, is similar to the (apparent) revelations about the work Pfizer was supposedly doing to develop new vaccines, if you believe the bragging of the researcher that Project Veritas caught on camera. He claims
he was lying to impress a possible lover, and Pfizer claims they were not mutating the virus. I have my doubts about their honesty, but the evidence is from this one source.

Quay believes Covid-19 was created by inserting a furin cleavage site
into one of the mine viruses and then serial passaging it through
humanised mice. He submitted a statement to the US Senate explaining
the process. “You infect the mice, wait a week or so, and then recover
the virus from the sickest mice. Then you repeat. In a matter of weeks
this directed evolution will produce a virus that can kill every
humanised mouse.”

This explains why from the beginning of the outbreak, he says, the
pandemic virus was so remarkably well adapted to infect humans.

Why was China so aggressive about doing research on coronaviruses? Their explanation makes sense, of course: SARS hit Asia hard, and finding a vaccine to combat it would be a massive benefit to mankind. How, exactly, creating a deadlier variant of the virus makes this more likely is beyond me, but I am
no biologist. What I do know is that the US and other Western scientists were worried enough about gain-of-function research to push for and to
successfully ban it for years.

There is, though, strong evidence for a more plausible explanation: the military wanted a bioweapon.

One of the reasons there is no published information on such work,
according to all three investigators, is because the shadow project on
the mine viruses at the Wuhan institute was being funded by the Chinese
military.

The State Department investigators wrote in their report: “Despite
presenting itself as a civilian institution, the United States has
determined that the Wuhan Institute of Virology has collaborated on
publications and secret projects with China’s military. The Wuhan
Institute of Virology has engaged in classified research, including
laboratory animal experiments, on behalf of the Chinese military since
at least 2017.”

One of the investigator sources said the secret military-funded
experiments on the mine virus, RaTG13, began in 2016.

I strongly suggest you read the whole thing, because there is more.

But let’s sum up: the evidence that COVID was engineered in Wuhan with funds from the United States and the Chinese military is overwhelming. The US has known this for years, and there is plenty of documentation to build a clear line from the discovery of bat coronaviruses in a mine–viruses that were similar to SARS, but didn’t infect humans. A furin cleavage site was
inserted, and then a program to mutate the virus into a deadly form.

All were done in a lab with biosafety level 2. The State Department investigators sent to determine what happened were stonewalled by China, but developed a chain of evidence that pretty conclusively demonstrates that this was done. There is no animal reservoir for the virus as it exists now,
despite lots of smoke and mirrors suggesting otherwise.

One last thing: there is an additional reason to cover this up in addition to bureaucratic ass-covering. If, in 2020, it had come out that China engineered the virus as it was causing panic, what do you think would have been the fallout?

It wouldn’t have been pretty for anybody concerned. Fauci would be toast, but so would US-China relations. And what do you think the chances are that
anybody at State or the DoD would have told Trump, whom the bureaucrats hated with a passion?

Zero.

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Let's go Brandon!

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